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What can be said is that Brian de Palma has made an exquisite entertainment that sends one back to Hitchcock, the masterly Vertigo in particular, for comparison. Obsession is a triumph of style over substance. Vilmos Zsigmond's camera, constantly on the move with a sinuous grace, is romantic in a manner seldom seen now in the movies. The late Bernard Herrmann's score, like the many he did for Hitchcock and Welles, is an instrument of flight, lifting the viewer up and over such resistance as he may have to the movie's patent improbability...
Last week the Orson Welles showed Hitchcock's single greatest movie, Strangers on a Train; this week, they're showing his two greatest movies, The Lady Vanishes and The 39 Steps. If you're one of the masses who'll be leaving Cambridge next week, hit the Orson Welles--you may have thought that Harvard and MIT were Cambridge's greatest resources, but you're wrong. Without the Welles, Cambridge would be a hole...
...Little League pitcher in The Bad News Bears. For her next number, Tatum O'Neal, all of 12, will dance back to the screen as a budding hoofer in Nickelodeon, Director Peter Bogdanovich's new film about 1920s Hollywood. Not to be outdone by Co-Star Jane Hitchcock, who once studied with Choreographer George Balanchine of the New York City Ballet, Tatum took a six-week crash course in tap dancing before stepping into her new role. Sums up Tatum: "I guess it's much more practical for me to be a hoofer than a pitcher...
Family Plot. A pleasant enough film, as long as one isn't expecting too much. It's the bourgeois thieves vs. the working class thieves, and our sympathies range themselves accordingly. A couple of good moments, but basically you get the feeling that Hitchcock just doesn't care that much anymore...
...Hitchcock's Family Plot...